Person 'collapses' in queue for monkeypox jab as hundreds wait 'hours in direct sun'

People were queuing for hours in 'direct sun' today as hundreds waited for a monkeypox jab. One person 'collapsed' as lines snaked through a car park for the mass vaccination clinic.

A mass vaccination clinic against monkeypox took place today (Sunday, August 14) following concerns that the virus may spread at upcoming Manchester Pride events. The vaccination drive also comes as monkeypox cases have seen an uptick in recent weeks across the country, met with frustrations that London has vaccinated thousands of people already, while Manchester has seen piecemeal vaccine allocations in the hundreds.

But as people from across Greater Manchester were told to come down to the clinic, patients sounded alarm bells about the lengthy queues in the hot weather. Vaccines were all allocated within six hours of the clinic starting.

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"Been in the monkeypox vaccine queue in direct sunlight in a car park for over four hours. Just had someone faint," tweeted Jack Fifield. The clinic opened for patients at 9am this morning.

"Taking the patient away in a chair now. Still don't get why there's been no water handed out, no opportunity for shade either. I've been leaving the queue and getting my water refilled at Caffe Nero.

"Clinical staff now asking people alone in the queue to ask those around them to save their place in the queue to make sure they can go and get a drink. Person who collapsed has been taken away with eyes closed."

An ambulance arrived at the Hathersage Centre, where the clinic was being run. Clinicians also emerged to tell the waiting lines of patients that the centre had just '400 doses for 4,000 eligible patients', according to